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of Westminster</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date243">22d<lb></lb>
day of July 1773</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1086">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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in the said Liberty at the<lb></lb>
Dwelling House of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1336-1">William Mansfield</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the Sign of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1087">Coach and Horses</rs>
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Before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1336-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ328">Gentleman</rs>
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His Majesty's Coroner<lb></lb>
for the said City and Liberty touching the Death<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1336-3">Susannah Burton</rs>
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otherwise <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1336-35">Nash</rs>
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then and there lying Dead<lb></lb>
as Follow</p>
<p n="1337"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1337-1">Ann Sopp</rs>
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on her Oath says that she known the Deceased about<lb></lb>
6 Years, that during the time she has known her she observed her<lb></lb>
frequently to be in a little delirious moping melancholy way, but<lb></lb>
within 5 Weeks past has observed her to be quite incapable of any Work<lb></lb>
being entirely Melancholly, she saw the Deced on Saturday about Eleven<lb></lb>
o' Clock in the Morning pass by her Door, Deponent spoke to her but she<lb></lb>
did not Answer, Deponent saw her Yesterday and heard she was Drowned being Dead on a Dunghill at<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the Evening before in the Thames,<obscured></obscured>
a Person that Lives on the<lb></lb>
Bank told her she lent<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a Man into the<del>who took for out of the</del>
<lb></lb>
Water with her Garter to tye the Deced to a tree for fear of the Tides's taking<lb></lb>
her away Deponent says she was a Lober Person, that she used<lb></lb>
Frequently to Walk about the Streets but did not care for speaking<lb></lb>
to any Body.</p>
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